Philip van Allen

Biography

Phil van Allen is an interaction design consultant, researcher, technologist and educator whose work ranges from the practical to the speculative. He is a core faculty member and Professor in the Media Design Practices MFA program. In his research, van Allen is developing animistic design as a new approach to AI that builds productive ecosystems for creative work. He is the creator of the Delft AI Toolkit, an open source toolkit that makes designing and building working prototypes of AI based systems accessible to the designer’s process. van Allen also writes about interaction design and is a consultant for industry with clients such as Jaguar Land Rover, Razorfish, Acura, USC, GPJ and yU+co.